Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Systems and infrastructures are currently being developed to support Web services and Web processes. One prominent solution to manage and coordinate Web services is the use of wor...
The Web consists of a large amount of unstructured information that hardly can be elaborated by automatic agents. In recent years, a considerable number of techniques for informat...
Leonardo Rigutini, Ernesto Di Iorio, Marco Ernande...
We consider the problem of building a P2P-based search engine for massive document collections. We describe a prototype system called ODISSEA (Open DIStributed Search Engine Archi...
For the composition of Web services non-functional characteristics are commonly considered criteria for finding and selecting available services. Our work focuses on a mechanism ...
Michael C. Jaeger, Gregor Rojec-Goldmann, Gero M&u...